It's especially annoying because I have never noticed Deb exhibit any inappropriate feelings for Dexter. Maybe I just haven't been paying attention, but this seems to be coming out of absolutely nowhere. Aaaaand it's gross.

It's especially annoying because I have never noticed Deb exhibit any inappropriate feelings for Dexter. Maybe I just haven't been paying attention, but this seems to be coming out of absolutely nowhere. Aaaaand it's gross.

Exactly. It's so weird because I've never known Deb to be so freaking clingy to begin with. Before this season, she never depended on Dexter anymore than a normal brother and sister would. So it's extra insulting.

I don't like Deb being in love with Dex. I agree with pastabake, feeling very awkward. Although this season was not all that great, the last bit of this episode was nice. I am excited to see what happens next season.

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Holy shiitake! I thought we were just supposed to fear that she'd walk in, since he (stupidly!) set up his kill room right in the place where she told him to go, right when she told him to go there. Dexter really has gotten dumber over the years. I didn't think she'd actually find out, though!

Hopefully next season doesn't suck as bad as this one did. It has so much potential to be awesome, which probably means they'll fork it up somehow.

I think the next season should be entirely acted out by ghosts and Dexter, culminating in him going to trial. Then the final season should have each episode be a year in Dex's life as they go through the court process and finally exhaust all appeals. After he is executed by the state, his ghost rises and he and all the other ghosts rise up into the light. The big reveal is that Deb was a figment of Dexter's imagination all along, and was his first victim.

Either that or he flees to Canada and takes up clubbing seal hunters

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They should have extended the episode by like 2 minutes. Deb goes "I just came her to tell you I'm in love with you...and this is what I find?"

And a disgusted Dexter goes "Ew, you want to fork me? I'll make a deal, I won't tell anyone about you if you don't tell anyone about me, because honestly, I'm not sure which is worse. I mean, serial murder is bad, but incest?"

You'd have to look at each state individually to see if non-blood relatives/siblings by adoption can have sex, without it being a crime. In NJ, there are no penalties if all parties are over the age of 18.

Quote:

FL Statutes - Title XLVI Crimes Section 826.04 Incest.

Whoever knowingly marries or has sexual intercourse with a person to whom he or she is related by lineal consanguinity, or a brother, sister, uncle, aunt, nephew, or niece, commits incest, which constitutes a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084. "Sexual intercourse" is the penetration of the female sex organ by the male sex organ, however slight; emission of semen is not required.

You'd need to check the definition of brother and/or cases to see if adopted siblings are covered or if its by blood only. It is interested that under FL code lineal consanguinity ie blood relationships are necessary for parent-child sexual relations. So you can bone your step-son or your step-father. That isn't the case in certain other states.

And based on the definition, any sexual contact that isn't p in v is fine no matter who you are.

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Thanks, bekki, but I don't really think they'll do that.Deb finding out was just around the corner after last season's weird talking-through-the-curtain scene.I'll bet Deb will make the connection - and she only knows about the "bad guys" (serial rapist/killer and DDK), so she'll probably be... okay with it?Next season will be a cheap Natural Born Killers ripoff then.

Thanks, bekki, but I don't really think they'll do that.Deb finding out was just around the corner after last season's weird talking-through-the-curtain scene.I'll bet Deb will make the connection - and she only knows about the "bad guys" (serial rapist/killer and DDK), so she'll probably be... okay with it?Next season will be a cheap Natural Born Killers ripoff then.

Ha! OR she realizes that every shitty relationship she had was Dexter's fault...because she was secretly in love with him and he is a serial killer so she was forever searching for someone with a dark passenger. So she freaks out and kills him. Hooray for the single episode season.

Can you tell I'm frustrated with the show? Very early in the season, my husband accidentally read an interview with Jennifer Carpenter and he found out that Deb found out. When he complained about getting a BIG spoiler, of course I annoyed him until he told me (because I'm obviously too lazy to use google). So I was pretty much expecting that they would leave it for the finale. I was annoyed with that, but okay with it until the entire season sucked so badly...then it just pissed me off. I totally agree with Isa, that was a total cop-out. Maybe I wouldn't have felt this way had the entire season not have been quite so bleh.

Also, did anyone notice the episode ended with "Oh, God."

I have no clue about illegalness of boning people you're related to by adoption, but I guess I just think sibling = sibling. This semester I did find the fun fact that cognitive psychologists apparently love to use this weird scenario about using lots of birth control and sleeping with your brother/sister as a test of morality and some specific emotions...I had run across the scenario in texts before but was amazed at the number of studies utilizing it. Not that that has anything to do with...anything, Other than I'm over incest. Two shows and one lit review. More than enough for me.

I'm also frustrated with the show. The first season was the best by far. That's why the dark passenger pseudo-twist this season really pissed me off. Yeah, I missed the Ice Truck Killer - but not like that!!

Also, why did they have to do that to Quinn? I feel like I can't like him any more.